OF SEA-ANEMONES. 2/ 



a portion of the rock to which they adhere : we shall 

 see presently that " the daisy" will shrink to the size 

 of a hean on being touched, and retire into so deep 

 a cavity that no knife-persuasion can move him. 

 The oj^ster and putty knives are both useful, but the 

 paper-knife (breadth half-an-inch) is by far the best 

 for general purposes. Eemember that though the 

 animals have great powers of reproduction (it is said 

 that we may procure two perfect anemones by cutting 

 one across vertically or horizontally), yet, as a general 

 rule, if they are at all lacerated the}^ mortify, con'upt 

 the water in which they are placed, and finally die. 

 The net is used for lifting the animals from the 

 pools, and for catching small crabs, shrimps, &c., 

 which they will have much pleasure in devouring at 

 a future tune. 



This zinc can (plate 11, fig. 5) is 8^ inches high, 

 and its width is 8 inches by 4 J. It is made of per- 

 forated zinc, in order to reduce the weight, no small 

 object at the close of a long day's ramble : it contains 

 one large, wide-mouthed glass-bottle, about 3 inches 

 in diameter, next two small bottles about 3 inches 

 high, and next to these two more bottles 5 inches in 

 height — all wide - mouthed, well -corked; all the 

 bottles are kept in their places by circlets of brass 

 wire. The space above the four smaller bottles is 

 filled by a zinc (solid) trough, to hold sea-weed, 

 crabs and so forth. Any intelligent ironmonger will 



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